Guide to the Morris Bishop Papers,
1901-1974

Collection Number: 14-18-641

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
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Date completed:
EAD encoding:
Evan Fay Earle, June 2007

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Morris Bishop papers, 1901-1974.
Collection Number:
14-18-641
Creator:
Morris, Bishop 1893-1973.
Quantity:
17.5 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, manuscripts, lecture notes, printed material.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Correspondence, research material, and manuscript drafts of Bishop's writings, particularly his A HISTORY OF CORNELL. Includes subject files, course lecture notebooks and notes, poems, and other printed material. Major correspondents include Arthur L. Abelson, Romeyn Berry, Edwin G. Boring, Gilmore D. Clarke, Arthur H. Dean, E. B. White, Walter F. Willcox, Bernard Burgunder, Emile Caillet, David Daiches, Robertson Davis, Leon Edel, Charles Henry Hull, J. J. Jusserand, and Vladmir Nabokov. Letters received by Bishop containing anecdotes about Cornell history are numerous.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Morris Gilbert Bishop was Professor of Romance Literature, University Historian.
Class of 1913, M.A. 1914, Ph.D., 1926, Cornell University.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Correspondence, research material, and manuscript drafts of Bishop's writings, particularly his A HISTORY OF CORNELL. Includes subject files, course lecture notebooks and notes, poems, and other printed material. Major correspondents include Arthur L. Abelson, Romeyn Berry, Edwin G. Boring, Gilmore D. Clarke, Arthur H. Dean, E. B. White, Walter F. Willcox, Bernard Burgunder, Emile Caillet, David Daiches, Robertson Davis, Leon Edel, Charles Henry Hull, J. J. Jusserand, and Vladmir Nabokov. Letters received by Bishop containing anecdotes about Cornell history are numerous.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Bishop, Morris,1893-1973.
Abelson, Arthur L.
Berry, Romeyn, 1881-1957.
Bishop, Morris, 1893-1973.
Boring, Edwin Garrigues, 1886-1968.
Burgunder, Bernard.
Caillet, Emile.
Clarke, Gilmore D., 1892-
Daiches, David, 1912-
Davies, Robertson, 1913-
Dean, Arthur H.(Arthur Hobson), 1898-1987.
Edel, Leon, 1907-
Hull, Charles Henry, b. 1864.
Jusserand, J. J.(Jean Jules), 1855-1932.
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.
White, E. B.(Elwyn Brooks), 1899-
Willcox, Walter Francis, 1861-1964.
Cornell University--History.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

A copy of the paper guide to this collection is available by clicking here. (1MB PDF)
Cite As:
Morris Bishop papers, #14-18-641. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
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